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The House for the second time voted swiftly Wednesday afternoon to pass the final version of the $1.5 trillion bill, paving the way for President Trump to sign into law just in time for Christmas.

The revision bill was approved 224 to 201, with a few representatives not taking part in the second vote. Before the House voted, Trump on Twitter cheered the tax cuts while attacking “the Fake News” and “their friends, the defeated Dems.”

(-- removed HTML --) (-- removed HTML --) The Tax Cuts are so large and so meaningful, and yet the Fake News is working overtime to follow the lead of their friends, the defeated Dems, and only demean. This is truly a case where the results will speak for themselves, starting very soon. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs! …show more content…

The bill passed 51 to 48, along party lines. Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin presided over the votes. Only one Republican, Senator John McCain missed the vote due to recovering from chemo therapy for brain tumor.

“After eight straight years of slow growth and underperformance, America is ready to take over,” Senator Mitch McConnell said after the vote passed. “

The House voted again for the $1.5 trillion tax cut Wednesday morning before sending the bill to the Senate to be voted on. The Senate had to make three small provisions to the bill before voting to allow it to pass under a simple majority vote known as reconciliation rules. The last-minute parliamentary stumble involved three small components of the bill, including a provision that would have allowed the use of 529 savings accounts for homeschooling expenses and part of the criteria to be used to determine whether colleges and universities are subject to an excise tax imposed on their investment income.

The name of the bill’s name, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was also ruled against by the parliamentarian, since the name didn’t influence spending or revenue. The new long and bland name was changed to “To provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.”

“If there is anything better than voting for

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